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![Providence Canyon](/assets/img/blog/providence-canyon/Providence-Canyon-1.jpg)
Providence Canyon
In spring and summer, Providence Canyon State Park puts on a show of color with its many wildflowers, including the...
![Arabia Mountain](/assets/img/blog/arabia-mountain/Arabia-Mountain-1.jpg)
Arabia Mountain
Who would expect this eerie, lovely landscape so close to Atlanta? The site of a former granite quarry, Arabia Mountain...
![Oakland Cemetery](/assets/img/blog/oakland-cemetery/Oakland-2.jpg)
Oakland Cemetery
A visit to Oakland Cemetery, with its more than 70,000 graves, is not the somber trip you might imagine. You...
![Chattanooga: Scenic City](/assets/img/blog/chattanooga/Chattanooga-1.jpg)
Chattanooga: Scenic City
The home of MoonPies and miniature golf, claiming both the world’s longest pedestrian bridge and the world’s steepest passenger railway...
![The Tate House](/assets/img/blog/tate-house/Tate-House.jpg)
The Tate House
I don’t typically care much for Christmas décor, but I’ve got to hand it to the folks at the Tate...
![Charleston, South Carolina](/assets/img/blog/charleston/Pastel-Houses-at-Rainbow-Row-1.jpg)
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is famous for its food, beaches and Southern hospitality, and it’s recently become one of the hottest vacation destinations...
![A Month in Nîmes, France](/assets/img/blog/a-month-in-nimes-france/Nimes-France-statue-in-front-of-arena.jpg)
A Month in Nîmes, France
I knew about Avignon and, of course, Provence, but the city of Nîmes and the Occitanie region weren’t originally on...
![Coffee and Games in Panama City](/assets/img/blog/amavida-coffee-and-games-in-panama-city/amavida-lunch-and-board-games.jpg)
Coffee and Games in Panama City
I love creative third places — those special hangouts beyond work and home that do things a little differently. Amavida...
![Escape Games in Metro Atlanta](/assets/img/blog/escape-games-in-metro-atlanta/escape-games-in-metro-atlanta.jpg)
Escape Games in Metro Atlanta
I’ve always loved puzzles, so the idea of being locked in a room that is essentially a giant puzzle box...
![Villa d'Este](/assets/img/blog/villa-dest/Villa-dEste-orange-tree.jpg)
Villa d'Este
My favorite part of Rome wasn’t in Rome. Sacrilege, I know, but take a day trip to the hill town...
![San Diego](/assets/img/blog/san-diego/San-Diego-11.jpg)
San Diego
San Diego was one of those surprising destinations where you encounter so much more than you expected. It’s trite to...
![The Goat Farm Arts Center](/assets/img/blog/goat-farm/An-actual-goat-at-The-Goat-Farm.jpg)
The Goat Farm Arts Center
The indie, eclectic, industrial Goat Farm is an unusual place. It’s versatile, post-modern almost, with just as many meanings.
![Longwood Gardens](/assets/img/blog/longwood-gardens/Italian-Water-Garden-at-Longwood-Gardens.jpg)
Longwood Gardens
Longwood Gardens is the most beautiful garden in America. Really. And I dearly love gardens. A beautiful garden is a...
![Charlotte, North Carolina](/assets/img/blog/charlotte/Creative-downtown-Charlotte-street-signs.jpg)
Charlotte, North Carolina
The Queen City is a vacationer’s delight. If you’re like me and enjoy packing a lot into a long weekend,...
![Escape Games ITP Atlanta](/assets/img/blog/escape-games-itp-atlanta/Alcatraz-Escape-Room-at-Time-to-Escape.jpg)
Escape Games ITP Atlanta
About a year ago, I explored several of the escape rooms in Atlanta’s northern suburbs: places like Vinings, Alpharetta, Peachtree...
![Dallas, Texas](/assets/img/blog/dallas-texas/Downtown-Dallas_photo-by-Cheryl-Rodewig.jpg)
Dallas, Texas
Texas was never on my bucket list. There are so many countries I want to see, so many capitals and...
![Atlanta's Pie Bar](/assets/img/blog/atlanta-pie-bar/Sample-of-pies-at-Sway-pie-bar.jpg)
Atlanta's Pie Bar
I really like pie.
![Opera and Ballet in Cinema](/assets/img/blog/opera-ballet-in-cinema/2-Maria-Alexandrova-as-Esmeralda-photo_by_Damir_Yusupov.jpg)
Opera and Ballet in Cinema
A European audience, dressed in theater-going finery, makes its way through the crowd and bustle — all on a 50-foot-wide...
![Cinque Terre](/assets/img/blog/cinque-terre/Cinque-Terre-2.jpg)
Cinque Terre
You can do Cinque Terre in a day trip.
![Shell Island](/assets/img/blog/shell-island/Shell-Island-1.jpg)
Shell Island
Located at the very tip of the Panama City Beach “peninsula,” the 700-acre St. Andrews State Park is a nature-lover’s...
![La Vie Romantique](/assets/img/blog/la-vie-romantique/la-vie-romantique.jpg)
La Vie Romantique
Beautiful, artistic Paris in the heyday of the Romantic era. You’ll find it best preserved at the Musée de la...
![Quidam](/assets/img/blog/quidam/quidam.jpg)
Quidam
If I have ever seen je ne sais quoi in motion, it is while watching Cirque du Soleil, and perhaps...
![Santander and Laredo](/assets/img/blog/santander-laredo/Santander-3.jpg)
Santander and Laredo
Laredo is a quiet beach town with a picturesque and nationally protected historic district, the Puebla Vieja, filled with gates,...
![Dance at the Confucius Institute](/assets/img/blog/confucius-institute/Chinese-New-Year.jpg)
Dance at the Confucius Institute
If you live in Georgia, go see the Confucius Institute at Kennesaw State University. The organization hosts free performances throughout...
![Saint-Malo](/assets/img/blog/saint-malo/San-Malo.jpg)
Saint-Malo
If you’re visiting Mont Saint-Michel, you must stop by its neighbor, Saint-Malo. The medieval town draws visitors from around the...
![Historic Savannah](/assets/img/blog/savannah-georgia-history/historic-savannah-1.jpg)
Historic Savannah
Whether your fancy is gardens or ghosts, beaches or antebellum history, Savannah has it — all overlaid with the gilt...
![Little Angels of Korea](/assets/img/blog/little-angels/little-angels-1.jpg)
Little Angels of Korea
The heartrending beauty of the Little Angels, a children’s folk ballet hailing from South Korea, is one of the chief...
![Radium Springs](/assets/img/blog/radium-springs/Radium-Spring-1.jpg)
Radium Springs
Possibly the least known of Georgia’s seven natural wonders, Radium Springs is an uncanny pool of verdigris hiding a vast...
![Gibbs Garden](/assets/img/blog/gibbs-garden/Gibbs14.jpg)
Gibbs Garden
Millions of daffodils, dogwoods, roses, rhododendrons, wildflowers and more blanket the manicured grounds of Gibbs Gardens each year.
![Desoto Falls](/assets/img/blog/desoto-falls/Desoto-Falls16.jpg)
Desoto Falls
I’m something of a waterfall fanatic. I try to rank them by grandeur, loveliness, by the degrees of awe they...